What does the Discogs plugin?

[make-nz]

Hi all. Am a long time user of JF, but new here.
As with all things you don't know well, you don't know if they work well for you.
I installed the Discogs plugin, put in my DEV-KEY and I can see it as a new meta data provider for my Media Library.

Q:

1. In my existing Lib of tagged flac music CDs I set discogs to provide albumartis meta data,
   but a scan for missing meta data does not bring in any new information/images to my albumartis tab.
   How can I trigger this?
   
   
2. In the plugin setting there ist the option:
   Description markup: HTML | TEXT
   Am I supposed to see any Discogs information on some screens, or a link?
   

Server: 10.9.11 FreeBSDon TrueNas Core 13.3
Plugin: Discogs1.2404.12.0


Cheers

[TheDreadPirate]

It is similar to Musicbrainz, but it appears that the plugin is in a bad state. I spoke with the devs and they will take a look at the plugin and give it some attention.

Can you share your jellyfin logs?

[Druidblack]

Will it help or not. But try the plugin https://github.com/lyarenei/jellyfin-plugin-itunes . There are 300,000 songs in my music library. This plugin was able to match all artists to apple music and upload their images. I was also able to match all the available albums (with an accuracy of 90-95%) of the Cover, this plugin did not automatically download to me, but when editing the album image, it allows you to download the cover in good quality.

[make-nz]

As for logs, there is not a single line on discogs.
I just added a few test folders and this is all I can find in the log, when it songs are being scaned

…
[2024-11-13 19:05:07.973 +01:00] [INF] [17] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder: Starting "ffprobe" with args "-analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -i file:\"/media/Amazon MP3/Mark Knopfler/Wag The Dog/03 - In The Heartland.mp3\" -threads 0 -v warning -print_format json -show_streams -show_format"
…

Album info, artwork… come from tags; artist is added, but art work, poster, info on the artist.

   

[make-nz]

@Druidblack
Thank you for pointing me to the plug in.
It is slow, but off to a good start…

   

[make-nz]

Is there any docs on what mp3/flac tags would be read/recognised here -- see pic
   

What all my files have is:

• DISCOGS_RELEASE_ID
  

some also have a 2nd tag:

• DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID
  

But they never show up in JF!

Is this by design, like only some JF Metadata plugin would write these?
Or should JF do this without any Metadata downloaders?

[TheDreadPirate]

I think the Discogs plugin is busted, as I stated in my earlier post. The devs are taking a look.

[make-nz]

Turns out you don't get errors with the plug in name, when you have more then one.
So with just Discogs set activ I got an error in the Log:

[2024-11-15 07:21:31.931 +01:00] [ERR] [29] MediaBrowser.Providers.Music.ArtistMetadataService: Error in "Discogs"
System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (Not Found).
  at System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage.EnsureSuccessStatusCode()
  at Jellyfin.Plugin.Discogs.DiscogsApi.Request(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at Jellyfin.Plugin.Discogs.DiscogsApi.GetArtist(String id, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at Jellyfin.Plugin.Discogs.Providers.DiscogsArtistProvider.GetMetadata(ArtistInfo info, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager.MetadataService2.ExecuteRemoteProviders(MetadataResult1 temp, String logName, Boolean replaceData, TIdType id, IEnumerable`1 providers, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

I did have a look on github and it does look pretty much unmaintained.

Do you talk to someone new, to take over the plugin?

[TheDreadPirate]

You don't have to take over. Just submit (good) code and the maintainer will review it and merge it if it works. That's how open source works.

[make-nz]

 The devs are taking a look.

 I was refering to the above, I don't even what this is coded in.

EDIT: Just created two issues on github.